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Final Destination 5

  • Title: Final Destination 5
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To absolutely no one’s surprise, except apparently the makers of the film, centering the film around corporate assholes wasn’t the magic ingredient in fixing the devolving franchise. Final Destination 5 isn’t much of an improvement over the false advertising that already delivered us The Final Destination. Following the same set up as the rest of the franchise, Final Destination 5 starts with a bridge collapse which is survived by a handful of people thanks to the premonition of one member (Nicholas D’Agosto) of a group heading to a company retreat who manages to save some friends and strangers before his vision comes true. However, as we all know, Death isn’t about to be cheated.

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Demolition Man

  • Title: Demolition Man
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Let’s get this out of the way first, Demolition Man is a somewhat fun, if incredibly stupid, movie. Set in a dystopian future of a seemingly innocuous utopia (but with its own troubles bubbling under the surface), the film gives us super-cop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) and psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) both being released from cryogenic prison where their battles in the late 90s left them (thanks to Phoenix framing Spartan in a way so obvious it could only be missed by 90s rule of law).

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The Final Destination

  • Title: The Final Destination
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The fourth installment to the franchise is hardly distinguishable from the fifth (which would put the franchise on hiatus for more than a decade). Offering no standout performances or all that memorable deaths, The Final Destination is just plain bad. Our big event, which a handful of characters avoid, is a car crash at a racecourse filmed in ways mostly to make the debris shoot out towards the audience in 3D. The utterly bland Nick (Bobby Campo) is responsible for saving a few of his friends and some strangers before the carnage takes everyone else. Then Death begins targeting the survivors (Nick Zano, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb, Justin Welborn, Mykelti Williamson, and Krista Allen) one by one.

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Lilo & Stich

  • Title: Lilo & Stitch
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While its themes fit quite easily into the Disney canon, from a story perspective Lilo & Stitch was a major departure from your typical Disney film during the studio’s more experimental period of the early 2000s. The film focuses on an escaped alien creation of mass destruction who finds acceptance and family on Earth. Renamed Stitch (Chris Sanders) by a lonely young Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase) who mistakes him for a dog, the concept by co-writer/co-director Chris Sanders explores friendship and family through their unlikely pairing.

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Final Destination 3

  • Title: Final Destination 3
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Final Destination 3 is proof that a strong lead and a fun concept will only take you so far. Featuring a similar set up to the first two films of the franchise, a group is saved dying in a roller-coaster accident by the premonition of Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). The survivors then begin to die to odd occurrences throughout the film which are increasingly elaborate, gorier and more mean-spirited, less amusing, and far less fun with every entry into the franchise. You don’t have to look past the airheads (Chelan Simmons and Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) dying in the tanning salon during an overly-drawn out sequence to see this film isn’t going to end any better for the audience than it does for Death’s victims.

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